Today I'm smoking an Alec Bradley American Sungrown blend in the Robusto size. These cigars come in boxes of 20 in two blends, one with a Nicaraguan Sungrown Habano wrapper and the other one, the Classic blend, is a Connecticut Shade wrapper grown in Honduras. These cigars come in boxes of 20 in 6 different sizes; a corona, a robusto, a toro, a torpedo, a churchill and a gordo. The boxes are pretty generic looking and easy to pass up on a full shelf. The box is covered in paper with a wood grain pattern printed on it, the Classic blend is red on the top and the Sungrown blend is a wood color.
Onto what matters, the cigars themselves. They are well constructed and don't have annoying soft spots or mismatched wrappers. Each cigar you get in a box is uniform, which says a lot about Alec Bradley's quality control, the box may be underwhelming, but the cigars deliver. The bunch is tight enough that each cigar lights up with little resistance, but not so tight that they light unevenly. The burn line isn't perfect throughout, but it burns straight enough to not interrupt the quality of the draw. The Sungrown Blend delivers a strong flavor with a peppery quality to it, typical for a Sungrown wrapper leaf . This blend is not very complex, you get pretty much the flavor that starts from the initial light up. For the price this cigar performs very well, to compare it to another Alec Bradley product, it has the strength of the Black Market line but it doesn't have quite the range of flavors that the Black Market offers.
Overall this cigar is great for the regular smoker that doesn't want to break the bank, the Robusto size is a good 30 minute smoke and the Sungrown is more than adequate for a smoker that smokes fuller bodied cigars, I find it comparable to the My Father La Antiguedad or the Rocky Patel Edge Habano. The Classic blend is good for a regular Connecticut smoker, or a smoker looking for an easy going daytime cigar. My overall take on this cigar is it's much better than one would assume from looking at the price tag and worth going for if you don't know what to smoke and see one nearby.
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